American labor movement

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The American labor movement is a broad social and political effort in the United States that organizes workers to improve wages, working conditions, and labor rights through unions, collective bargaining, and advocacy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf labor movement
social movement
advocatedRight Social Security
anti-discrimination protections
child labor restrictions
collective bargaining rights
eight-hour workday
minimum wage laws
paid leave
unemployment insurance
workplace safety regulations
country United States
facesOppositionFrom anti-union legislation
employers
right-to-work laws
hasDemographic farmworkers
industrial workers
public sector workers
service sector workers
hasGoal expand labor rights
improve wages
improve working conditions
hasKeyEvent Fight for $15 movement
Flint sit-down strike
Haymarket affair
Homestead Strike
Ludlow Massacre
linked to: Ludlow strike

Memphis sanitation strike
PATCO strike
Pullman Strike
hasOrganization AFL–CIO
American Federation of Labor
American Federation of Teachers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Industrial Workers of the World
National Education Association
Service Employees International Union
Teamsters
United Auto Workers
United Farm Workers
United Mine Workers of America
hasTactic boycotts
contract negotiations
legal challenges
mass demonstrations
union organizing drives
historicalPeriod 19th century
20th century
21st century
influenced Fair Labor Standards Act
National Labor Relations Act
New Deal labor policy
Occupational Safety and Health Act
influencedBy European labor movements
Industrial Revolution in the United States
relatedTo civil rights movement
immigrant rights movement
women's rights movement
usesMethod collective bargaining
electoral politics
lobbying
picketing
political advocacy
strikes
union organization

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Helen Fabela Chávez sphereOfInfluence American labor movement
John L. Lewis movement American labor movement
American Railway Union partOf American labor movement
George Pullman hasEffectOn American labor movement
Richard T. Ely notableWork The Labor Movement in America
linked to: American labor movement
Sidney Hillman movement American labor movement
Lucille Campbell Green associatedWith American labor movement
NFWA movement American labor movement
César Chávez gravesite associatedWith American labor movement
Pretty Boy Floyd associatedWith American labor movement
Maud Younger partOf American labor movement
Rose Pastor Stokes areaOfInfluence U.S. labor movement
linked to: American labor movement
Textile Workers Union of America memberOf American labor movement
John Brophy sphereOfActivity United States labor movement
linked to: American labor movement
Jewish labor movement influenced American labor movement
Lane Kirkland partOf American labor movement